Emilio Venegas

A WordPress website for a local newspaper based in the city of Queretaro, Mexico, handling around 400,000 requests per month.

Given the nature of a newspaper, they add lots of new content every day. Despite this, their previous site made for a very static front page, where posts from categories that weren't updated as often would remain on the front page for weeks.

I completely redesigned the site so that only the most recent and relevant content is shown on the homepage. I also built different templates for the different types of articles in order to show the most important information based on category. This also makes for a much more immersive homepage, mimicking what it's like to read an actual newspaper.

In addition, I integrated the site with a custom ad service, allowing Plaza de Armas to serve rich-media ads and sell ads directly to companies of their choice. Profits were maximized by keeping the previous AdSense integration in place. Average monthly ad profits grew by over 300%, from around $3,000 MXN to around $10,000 MXN.

A medical eCommerce platform with an intuitive shopping experience via flexible filters. It allows users to query the 1,000+ products in the site's catalog in milliseconds and handles requests from 5,000+ users per month.

MediLab also sells through MercadoLibre, so I integrated the server with MercadoLibre's API in order to automatically sync with their catalog and keep every product up to date. The platform automatically fetches and synchs over 500 products from the MercadoLibre catalog every night.

This is all backed by a robust admin dashboard that allows MediLab to CRUD all the products in its catalog, even those that get synced automatically. It also allows for control of the homepage slideshow.

All of this is powered by React and Next.js with a flexible GraphQL API as its backbone. The API is built with Node.js and Express.

A custom crowdfunding platform developed from scratch. The idea is that campaigns can collect signatures from users, and, once they reach their signature goal, a single sponsor pays their funding goal in its entirety.

The app required four different user roles:
1. Regular users who can sign campaigns and optionally donate as well.
2. Organizations that can create campaigns and set their signature and funding goals.
3. Sponsors who can choose to sponsor campaigns, pledging to pay the entire funding goal once the signature goal is reached.
4. Admins who have full control over campaigns and users.

I first built a GraphQL API, using Node.js and MongoDB to respond to the different requests that the client might need. Then, I developed the front end using React, Next.js, and Apollo.

Payments are handled through Stripe and allow for both immediate payments (for user donations) and preauthorizations to be collected in the future (for sponsor payments).